Promoting Great Leadership
and Management for the Public Service
Leadership Quotes
"Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an
unbeatable combination."
--Warren Bennis
Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to
death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to
hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt
antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives
are really big on chipmunks.
--Newt Gingrich
"Our work is our most important resource to develop our people."
--Jim Trinka and Les Wallace
"Not one single leadership principle requires permission from anyone other
than you."
--Jim Trinka and Les Wallace
"Feedback is a gift. Ideas are the currency of our next success. Let
people see you value both feedback and ideas."
--Jim Trinka and Les Wallace
"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative
and independence."
--Reverend William John Henry Boetcker (1873-1962)
"Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and
supported from below."
--John Gardner
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for
development accorded the individual.
--Albert Einstein
